b Départment de Physique Nucléaire, CEN, Saclay, France
c Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany and Physikalisches Institut der Universität, Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract:
The production of Σ particles in the (K−, π−) on 9Be at 720 MeV/c has been studied at the CERN proton synchrotron (PS). The missing-mass spectrum shows structures in the Σ region, which have been interpreted as belonging to hypernuclei with sigma particles. An upper limit of 8 MeV for the width of these states has been estimated.